I began my doctorate at UBC in the fall of 2023 with a focus on the cultural impact of Decadent modernism during the early twentieth century. More specifically, I have examined Oscar Wilde’s paradoxical logic as a lingering figure of transnational middle-class political revisioning and queer time. With the intention of contributing to a recently thriving scholarly account of the origins and limits of Decadent critique, and informed by the theories of Raymond Williams and Jacques Rancière, I am interested in the role Decadent literature played in producing a self-reflexive form of modernist aesthetic and political consciousness.